This is One of The Fastest Ways to Stimulate Muscle Growth During an Exercise

Adding a dead stop to an exercise eliminates the stretch reflex, or the rubber-band-like tendency of your muscles and connective tissues that helps power you through movements, explains Men’s Health Fitness Director BJ Gaddour.

“Coming to a complete pause and reset allows you to build raw strength, work your muscles much harder, hone your form and technique, and bulletproof your joints,” says Gaddour.

Use the dead-stop technique in the total-body workout shown above. It consists of four supersets - pairs of exercises that are done back-to-back with little to no rest.